Despite seeming like Earth's twin, Venus is a strange and mysterious place. Scientists haven't known what made it so odd, but that might have just changed.

From its scorching temperatures to its oddball rotation, there's a lot to learn about the second planet from the sun.

Most importantly however, they found that collisions matching Venus's present-day rotation rate typically produce minimal debris disks that reside within Venus's synchronous orbit.

A new research paper suggests that Venus could've been habitable for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of years.